Hope everyone is staying safe and warm during the Beast from the East and Storm Emma!

Editing events in TOG Hackerspace

We will be continuing our monthly editing events in TOG Hackerspace on Wednesday 28 March from 7-9pm. Whether you are new to Wikipedia or an old hand at editing, come along for a chat with fellow Wikimedians! All you need is a laptop, WiFi and pizza will be provided!

We are excited to announce that to celebrate International Women’s Day, we are partnering with the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland to acknowledge the many Irish women who have made their mark in medicine and nursing. The event will take place 8 March from 9:30-12:30, with lunch and even some prizes! All the details and how to RSVP can be found here.

Art+Feminism

Art+Feminism is now starting to ramp up across the world. We are delighted to announce we will be holding an event with the Digital Humanities in University College Cork on 10 March from 12-3pm. We will provide tutorials for the beginner Wikipedian, reference materials, and refreshments. Bring your laptop, power cord and ideas for entries that need updating or creation. You can find all the details here.

If you still want to organise an event fro Art+Feminism, or any other topic, do get in touch!

We will be continuing our monthly editing events in TOG Hackerspace on Wednesday 28 February from 7-9pm. Whether you are new to Wikipedia or an old hand at editing, come along for a chat with fellow Wikimedians! All you need is a laptop, WiFi and refreshments will be provided!

Art+Feminism will be returning in March 2018. We are currently at the planning stages of a number of events that will be run around the country, so watch this space for more details! Details on the international campaign are on the main website here.

Academia and Wikipedia: Critical Perspectives in Education and Research

This conference will be taking place in Maynooth, 18 June 2018. The call for papers is still open, and will close on 28 February 2018. All of the details can be found here.

Women in Red

During the month of January, the Wiki Project Women in Red ran an editing campaign to focus on writing and improving articles about women from Great Britain and Ireland. A number of Irish women were written about including Nicola Gordon Bowe and Irene Gilbert. You can see the results of the month long event here. Given that it is 100 years since women’s suffrage in Ireland and the UK, we’re hoping this is a start to an important year for women’s history on Wikipedia!

Academia and Wikipedia: Critical Perspectives in Education and Research

This conference, the first of it’s kind in Ireland, will be taking place in Maynooth, 18 June 2018. The call for papers is currently open, and will close on 28 February 2018. All of the details can be found here.

#1lib1ref

#1lib1ref (one librarian, one reference) is an international initiative to encourage librarians and information professionals to improve Wikipedia by adding just one citation. It runs from 15 January to 3 February 2018, and more details can be found here. If you have any questions about this, or want to get your library involved, do get in touch!

Art+Feminism

Art+Feminism will be returning in March 2018. Last year Ireland held one event in Galway, and this year we aim to build on that. Are you interested in helping hosting an event, or have a suggestion on how Ireland could contribute to this worldwide event? Get in touch with us! More details on the international campaign are on the main website here.

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http://wikimedia.ie/2017/12/12/wikimedia-community-ireland-newsletter-december-2017/#respondTue, 12 Dec 2017 16:36:31 +0000http://wikimedia.ie/?p=191Happy Christmas from all of us at Wikimedia Community Ireland, and hoping for an exciting and busy 2018!

Wiki Science

Ireland’s first year of the photography/image competition took place during November 2017, and we had 80 entries over our 6 categories.

Academia and Wikipedia: Critical Perspectives in Education and Research

This conference will be taking place in Maynooth, 18 June 2018. The call for papers is currently open, and will close on 28 February 2018. All of the details can be found here.

International Digital Preservation Day

As part of our ongoing partnership with Digital Repository Ireland, we held an event with the Library at Trinity College Dublin to mark International Digital Preservation Day on 30 November. It was a fascinating day of editing, with a pop up museum of computers organised by the Library. The international hashtag was #idpd17.

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http://wikimedia.ie/2017/12/07/winners-wiki-science-2017/#respondThu, 07 Dec 2017 11:26:41 +0000http://wikimedia.ie/?p=208We are excited to announce the 6 winners of Ireland’s first year of Wiki Science. Well done to all the winners, and a huge thank you to everyone who took part!

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http://wikimedia.ie/2017/11/09/wiki-loves-monuments-2017/#respondThu, 09 Nov 2017 11:06:32 +0000http://wikimedia.ie/?p=1962017 was another fantastic year for Wiki Loves Monuments in Ireland. We are delighted to announce the 10 local winners for this year. Congratulations to everyone!

We have been working hard with our panel of judges, sorting through all the photographs submitted to this year’s competition. Come join us in the Science Gallery on Thursday 9 November when we celebrate the top 10 photos, and reveal who got the top spot! You can find the top ten, listed alphabetically here.

Wiki Science

We are very excited to announce that Ireland will be taking part in Wiki Science for the first time this year, with competition running from 1-30 Novemeber. Wiki Science is a photo competition looking for images under 5 broad categories relating to science: people in science, microscopy images, non-photographic media, image sets, and a general category. In Ireland we will also be awarding a sixth prize for an image of Women in STEM.

We will be having a launch event long with our Wiki Loves Monuments Awards night in the Science Gallery, 9 November at 6:30pm.

As part of our ongoing partnership with Digital Repository Ireland, we are holding an event with the Library at Trinity College Dublin to mark International Digital Preservation Day on 30 November. If you have an interest in digitising collection and their use – save the date!

We are very excited to announce that Ireland will be taking part in Wiki Science for the first time this year. Wiki Science is a photo competition looking for images under 5 broad categories relating to science: people in science, microscopy images, non-photographic media, image sets, and a general category. In Ireland we will also be awarding a sixth prize for an image of Women in STEM. We will be announcing more details over the coming weeks, and if you have any suggestions, thoughts or ideas on this exciting initiative do get in contact!

Editing events in TOG Hackerspace

We will be continuing our editing events in TOG on Wednesday 25 October from 7-9pm. To get a reminder about this and other upcoming event sign up on the TOG Meetup page, or follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

Wiki Loves Monuments 2017

Thank you and good luck to everyone who entered this year’s competition. Ireland was ranked 37 out of the 52 participating countries with 851 uploaded images by 50 uploaders. We are busy organising the judging of the pictures and the awards event. Stay tuned to here the results by the start of November!

To celebrate Ireland’s third annual Internet Day, the IE Domain Registry (IEDR), the company that manages and maintains Ireland’s country domain name, .ie, will host an evening with Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales. Tickets are €14.99 with all proceeds going to CoderDojo. You can find more details here.

Wiki Loves Monuments 2017

As many of you will have seen, Ireland’s Wiki Loves Monuments was launched at Archaeo Fest as part of Heritage Week. This year Ireland’s monuments can be viewed through Monumental, as all of our data is now on Wikidata! You can search by county, see what monuments have no photo, or if they have an article. Do spread the word to your photography friends and family. You can find all the information at www.wikilovesmonuments.ie

Editing events in TOG Hackerspace

We held our first open editing event at TOG on 30 August. Some serious editing got done, and not just in English! We are hoping to make this a regular event, so do sign up on the TOG Meetup page, or follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

Digital Repository of Ireland

On Tuesday 5 September, we had our first joint event with the DRI in the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin. The workshop looked at Creative Commons and Public Domain licencing, in particular for those who work in cultural institutions. It also covered issues around Orphan Works, and the new EU Directive on Copyright. The next event with the DRI will be in October, and will focus on how cultural institutions can collaborate with Wikipedia and its sister projects.

Once again we are very excited to be launching Wiki Loves Monuments at Archeofest in Merrion Square on 26 August. We will be displaying previous winners of our photographic competition, so do come along and have a chat with us!

Wikidata and Irish monuments

Irish monuments are moving up in the world! Pawel has finished his work on the adding and improving of Irish monument data on Wikidata. You can see one of the glorious maps he produced here.

Wikimedia.ie

We have recently created a new website for the group, using a WordPress Theme that is specifically developed for Wikimedia User Groups. We would love to hear your feedback on it, or any suggestions you might have of extra content you’d like to see there.

Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI)
The first event that we are running in partnership with the DRI has been announced. This first event will focus on Creative Commons Licences. You can find further details here.